Measuring bottle-stopper



(No Model.)

m J. J. EASTMAN.

i MBAASURING BOTTLE STOPPBR. w f

No. 258,035. i Patented May16,`1882.

Ulli! UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

i JOHN J. EASTMAN, OF MEDIA7 PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO WILMER L.

KELLER, OF BALTIMORE7 MARYLAND.

MEASU RING` BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATIODI fOI'Znng part 40f Letters Patent lvm-258,035, dated May16, 1882.

` Application filed April 15, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN J..EAsTMAN, of Media., in the county of Delawareand State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improve ments inMeasuring Bottle-Stoppers, ot' which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cert-ain improvements in that class ofmeasuring bottle-stoppers in which a complete measuring-vessel iscombined with an ordinary bottle-stopper, the two devices being eitherin. one solid piece or made separately and united.

It is found in the use of a measuring bottle-` stopper construeted asabove briefly described that liqnidtinding its Way to the exterior ofthe measure in the careless handling of the device passes down thestopper to the base lor handle thereof when the measure is heldin anupright position. To obviate this difiiculty I provide the inner end ot'the stopper, near to the base ofthe measure, with an annular depression,into which liquid running down the exterior ot' the measure, as beforestated, is conducted.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, Figurel `is apartly-sectional view of a bottle tted with my improved measuringbottle-stopper. Figs. 2 and 3 are views of the stopper and measureseparated and on an enlarged scale, andu illustrating two methods ofeffecting the union ofthe said parts ofthe device when the same are notformed in a single solid piece.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts in allthe views.

In the said drawings, A represents the body of the bottle, and a theneekthereof. B is the stopper, and C the measuring-vessel.. The cavityin the stopper, intowhich the projection c is inserted, is marked b, andthe annular depression around the cavity b. In Figs.l and 3 the stopperand measure are held together by means of threads, whilefin Fig. 2 thecontact-surtaces of thel two devices are plain and the union completedby means of cement. I malte no claim, however, to the construction ot'the complet-e device in two parts, or to any particular method ot'securing the .said parts together; but

What I do claim as my invention is A bottlestopper having at its inneror lower end a measuring-extension and an annular groove surrounding thebase of the said eXtension, substantiallpfas and for the purposespecified. JOHN J. EAS'EMAN.

Witnesses Roer. C. EAs'rMAN, ALFRED W. MONTAGUE.

